General Information

• Full name: Enrico Bodo

• Born in Rome, 13/08/1972.

• Address: Dipartimento di Chimica, Universita ́ degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”, P.le Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Roma.

• E-mail: enrico.bodo@uniroma1.it

• Languages: Italian (mother tongue), English

Academic Appointments and Education

• Elected member of the Board of the Theoretical and Computational Chemistry Division of the Italian Chemical Society

• 2020 Elected member of the Faculty of Science council of the University of Rome “La Sapienza”

• 2017 November, Invited professor at the University of “Paris Sud, Orsay”.

• 2015 June, Invited professor at the University of “Paris Sud, Orsay”.

• 2015— Associate Professor in Physical Chemistry at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” in the Chemistry Department.

• 2013—2014 Collaborator and recurring short termvisitor at LAMBE (Laboratoire Analyse et Modelisation pour la Biologie et l’Environnement) Evry, Cedex, France.

• 2012—2019 Member of the ”Comitato di Monitoraggio” (Assurance of Quality) of the Faculty of Science.

• 2011— Member of the Permanent PhD committee of the Chemistry Department (”Collegio dei Docenti”).

• 2004—2011 Collaborator and recurring short term visitor at ITAMP (Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) Cambridge Massachusetts, USA.

• 2004— Researcher/Lecturer (equivalent to an american Assistant Professor) at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” in the Chemistry Department.

• 2002—2004 PostDoc in the theoretical chemistry group of Prof. Gianturco at the Univer- sity of Rome “La Sapienza”.

– Research project: Dynamical studies of the energetic processes in molecular gases at ultra-low temperatures

• 2001 Visiting Fellow at ITAMP under the supervision of Prof. A. Dalgarno (Intitute for Atomic and Molecular Physics), Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cam- bridge, Massachusetts, USA.

• 1999—2001 PhD in Chemistry, at the University of Rome La Sapienza.
  – Dissertation title: The Lithium chemistry in the early Universe: quantum treatment of interactions and dynamics.

• 1998 Laurea (equivalent to an American Master’s Degree) in Chemistry at the University
  of Rome “La Sapienza” achieved on the 21th May 1998 (magna cum laude).

Teaching and supervising

• 2017/18— Course for the Degree in Chemistry at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”: Chemical Physics II (9 credits).

• 2010/11— Course for the Degree in Chemistry at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”: Laboratory for Quantum Mechanics and Molecular Dynamics (9 credits).

• 2006/07—2009/10 Course for the Degree in Chemistry at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”: Quantum Mechanics (50 hours).

• 2006/07—2008/09 Course for the Degree in Chemistry at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”: Computer Science Technologies for Chemistry (60 hours)

• 2004/05—2009/10 Course for the Degree in Chemistry at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”: Application of Quantum Mechanics (40 hours).

Membership and Revision activities

• 2021— Editor in chief of Liquids.

• 2020— Member of the editorial board of Molecules.

• 2020— Member of the editorial board of Symmetry.

Summary of Scientific Achievements (data from Scopus)

E. B. is coauthor of 150 publications on international refereed journals and 4 book chapters. His h-index is 30 and has collected a total of around 2800 citations. 

Third Mission (outreach activity)

• 10-sept-2023 Speaker for the Research Nights with a lecture entitled The origin of the periodic table elements, Department of Chemistry of La Sapienza. This was an educational event for high school students.

• 21-dic-2022, Speaker at the Christmas Seminars held at the Chemistry Department of La Sapienza, with a lecture entitled The voyage of a proton in the universe. This was an educational event for high school students.

• 19-sept-2022, Speaker for the Research Nights with a lecture entitled The elements of the periodic table, Department of Mathematics of La Sapienza. This was an educational event for high school students.

• 30-Nov-2021, Speaker at "Lezioni a Palazzo" for the project "Tre Stazioni per Arte-Scienza", Palaexpo, Roma . Educational event held inside the Palaexpo museum for a general public.

• 11-Nov-2019, Speaker at the Giornata per i 150 anni della Tavola Periodica degli Elementi, Area della Ricerca di Roma 1, CNR, Montelibretti. This was an educational event for high school students.

• 2-Dec-2019 Speaker at the ”Christmas Seminars” held at the Chemistry Department of ”La Sapienza”, Rome. This was an educational event for high school students.